A nod to the annoyed slap on the hand of a loyal too eager last week. Pope Francis joked with a nun this Wednesday at the Vatican, asking her not to bite him in exchange for a kiss.
"I give you a kiss, but you have to stay calm." Don't bite! Launched François to the enthusiastic nun who had shouted "Long live the Pope!" During the weekly general audience of the Argentine pontiff.
Pope "lost patience"
Pope Francis, who celebrated his 83 years in December, then leaned towards the nun to place a kiss on his cheek to the cheers of the crowd. This outing was the pope's first walkabout since that of December 31, place Saint-Pierre, where a faithful a little too zealous had drawn her to her by vigorously drawing him by the hand, failing to bring him down.
Visibly irritated and his face grimacing in pain, the pope then gave him two taps on his hand to free himself, a gesture that had gone around the world and for which he had apologized the next day during the Angelus prayer , expressing regret for having "lost patience".
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